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Sigh. BP can afford to run fiber to their oil rigs, but Comcast can't be bothered to lay it through my neighborhood?
by danjayh 11y ago
Sigh. BP can afford to run fiber to their oil rigs, but Comcast can't be bothered to lay it through my neighborhood?
- superuser2 11y agoOil rigs make a little more money than residential neighborhoods.
- marincounty 11y agoPlus com-cash has exclusive rights to those telephone poles.
- kldloadrootkit 11y agoOfftopic joking serious: Be careful about mixing oil rigs and residential neighborhoods, because communities like Los Angeles are forced to deal with health problems and contaminated air and drinking water where environmental controls and inspections are weak. http://la.curbed.com/2014/7/29/10067206/mapping-all-3000-of-los-angeless-active-oil-wells http://la.curbed.com/2014/7/29/10067206/mapping-all-3000-of-... http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-next-door-20160221-story.html http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-next-door-20160221-stor...
- zeckalpha 11y agoI thought they were currently operating at a loss?
- RyJones 11y agono NIMBYs on the bottom of the ocean.
- doodlebugging 11y agoI can say with confidence that they don't run fiber to all their platforms, even the ones that are readily accessible.
- elithrar 11y agoThe cost to "make good" the sea floor is much cheaper than the cost to "make good" sidewalks, roadways, lobby community groups and pay contractors to pull fibre. Plus the cost to BP is likely worth it for the reliability over VSAT, vs. what might be a marginal improvement to the ARPU for Comcast.